Software is considered to be malware based on the perceived intent of the creator rather than any particular features. Malware includes computer viruses‚ worms‚ trojan horses‚ spyware‚ dishonest adware‚ crimeware‚ most rootkits‚ and other malicious and unwanted software.. Purposes Many early infectious programs‚ including the first Internet Worm and a number of MS-DOS viruses‚ were written as experiments or pranks. They were generally intended to be harmless or merely annoying‚ rather than to cause
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deducted from every account and deposited in a separate account. In denial of service attack‚ the computer is flooded with many requests until it crashes. Computer viruses and worm attacks are further examples of cyber attacks. The love bug virus caused losses amounting to $10 million. Robert Morris unleashed the Internet worm in 1998 which almost halted the development of the internet. Then there are logic bombs which are programs which get activated when a certain event happens. Trojan attacks
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Computer worms and viruses pose a clear and present danger for corporate and public information security in that as time and technology progress‚ the damaging effects this "malware" has on the network increases. Throughout this paper the term "malware" is used to define software that damages your system‚ causes instability‚ or exhibits antisocial behavior such as changing settings or interfering with a computer’s registry and security settings. Typical examples include computer viruses or worms.
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of the several types of malware or malicious software. What differentiates a worm from a macro virus? Worms are programs that replicate themselves from system to system without the use of a host file. This is in contrast to viruses‚ which requires the spreading of an infected host file. Although worms generally exist inside of other files‚ often Word or Excel documents‚ there is a difference between how worms and viruses use the host file. How does a denial of service attack work? DoS
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WHAT IS COMPUTER VIRUS A computer virus is a computer program that can replicate itself and spread from one computer to another. The term "virus" is also commonly but erroneously used to refer to other types of malware‚ including but not limited to adware and spyware programs that do not have the reproductive ability. A true virus can spread from one computer to another (in some form of executable code) when its host is taken to the target computer; for instance because a user sent it over a network
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Skrenta( showing his picture in the powerpoint) Other type of threats are Worms They are the most effective and dangerous threats because they replicate and spread by them self without even opening the file‚ hackers often use this type to gain access to the computers that they infect. Worms can also spread by copying themselves from disk to disk or by email. The most dangerous worm ever created is I LOVE YOU worm. It was first noticed in Philippines on May 4 2000 and then spread all over world
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Director Cadbury India Time Context: October 2003 (Maharashtra‚ India) Short Historical Background: In 1824‚ John Cadbury began selling tea‚ coffee‚ and drinking chocolate‚ which he produced himself‚ at Bull Street in Birmingham‚ England. He later moved into the production of a variety of cocoa and drinking chocolates‚ made in a factory in Bridge Street. John Cadbury became a partner with his brother Benjamin and the company they formed was called ‘Cadbury Brothers of Birmingham‘. Cadbury started
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EYOUILOVEYOU‚ sometime referred to as Love Letter‚ was a computer worm that attacked tens of millions of windows personal computers on and after May 5th 2000. It started in Philippines‚ spreading as an email message with the subject line “ILOVEYOU” and the attachment “LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.txt.vbs”. the latter file extension in this case is .vbs but by default it don’t show up in the windows files it will comes up as the normal text file to end user‚ .vbs is interpreted file that when they click the
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Case: Cadbury Beverages‚ Inc. 1. Situation Analysis - Industry o $43 billion in retail sales for soft drinks in 1989 o 82% of soft drink sales are led by 3 producers: Coke‚ PepsiCo‚ Dr. Pepper/Seven Up Supermarkets account for 40% of industry sales o Orange Category (diet & regular) accounts for about 3.9% of soft drink sales Top 4 ‘orange’ brands: Sunkist‚ Slice‚ Minute Maid‚ Crush - Company: Cadbury o 1989‚ $4.6 billion in worldwide sales beverages accounted for 60% ($2.76 Billion)
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business have to be alert and have to keep tight security in every systems such as “firewall”‚ so no hackers can hack in to their system. The other thing that ecommerce have to be aware of is viruses‚ viruses comes in many faces such as virus‚ worms and Trojans. These three viruses works in different way but the result of all these are same which is that they drops down the whole system once it goes into a system. Virus is a kind of code created by human that can damage the whole system once
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